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THE LOYOLA MAROON VOLUME 66, NO. 18 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70118 FEBRUARY 25, 1988 Acid leak in Monroe burns student By Chris Doyle News Editor At least 11 classes in Monroe 252 were relocated Feb. 10. They were closed after a crack in the ceiling allowed phenol, or carbolic acid, to seep through from a leaky container in a biology storeroom above, according to Dr. Jagdish M. Upadhyay, biology department chairman. The relocations, however, did not occur until a week after a student reported to Campus Security that she had received a small burn when a drop of the chemical fell from the ceiling on to her hand, the Rev. George F. Lundy, senior vice president and dean of faculties, said. Joan Spraggins, a secondary education and foreign languages graduate student, said she was getting into a circle for a night class group discussion when a drop of an oily, brownish liquid fell from the ceiling fell onto her hand. According to Lynn Brou of the Department of Environmental Quality, phenol is very toxic and is a suspected carcinogin in humans. Fatality has resulted from skin contact with areas of 64 inches.Spraggins said Upadhyay called her Feb. 10 to tell her that the substance that had fallen on her hand was something he had used many times, and although it would irritate the skin, it posed no real danger. Spraggins said she and some of the other students then noticed a stain on the carpet about 3 1/2 inches in diameter below the spot where the drop had fallen. According to Spraggins, she went to the bathroom to wash her hands, but she could not get the substance off. "It began to tingle-burn," Spraggins said, and eventually left a scar about the size of a nickel on her hand. Spraggins said she then left the class at her professor's suggestion and walked to security, where she was treated by the student health assistant, Pam Promecene. "After the report was made, I went over to room 252 and didn't see anything dripping but saw a dark spot on the ceiling," said Sgt. Robert Louis, who took the report from Spraggins. Alan Abadie, director of security, said that after reports are written by the officer on duty, they are typed by the secretary and forwarded over to the appropriate persons. Abadie said he believes this procedure was followed. A copy of the report indicates that it was forwarded to Vincent P. Knipfing, vice president for Student Affairs, and Robert Oehlke Jr., safety officer. "The safety officer is responsible for coordinating the response for a specific safety problem," Lundy said. At press time, Oehlke had not responded to repeated attempts to reach him for comment. Two days after she was burned, Spraggins said she went to the Office of StudentPhoto by Mary Degnan GETTING HIGH—The bell tower of Most Holy Name of Jesus Church receives special attention from workers Monday. Greek spring rush lacks affirmative action plan By Robb Kenney Editorial Editor Loyola's fraternities and sororities selected their spring pledges without definitive affirmative action plans, according to members of both the administration and the Greek organizations themselves. Vincent P. Knipfing, vice president for Student Affairs, attributed part of Greek organizations' lack of an affirmative action program to the way the administration handled the situation. "Our past mistake was not to encourage organizations to get specific plans," he said. "It's now going to require hard work, and there are obviously people out there who don't see value in this.'' Knipfing said he personally sees affirmative action as "a proactive effort to recruit minority students." The Rev. George F. Lundy, S J., senior vice president and dean of faculties and the university's designated affirmative action officer, said he was unaware of any particular affirmative action strategies that Greeks currently implement. He said he thinks more meetings between fraternity and sorority members and administrators to further discuss affirmative action are imminent Nazis' atrocities leave scars By Jeff Slade Staff writer Why hunt Nazis? They are not just creatures of the past, jerking about on grainy black and white newsreels. They are here now in living color: old, unrepentent men with crum- pled faces, young men with shaved heads, human bodies wrapped around lizards'hearts.Kurt Waldheim, president of Austria of the United ;. Nations, has been confronted with evidence that he knew of wartime atrocities while he was an officer in Adolph Hitler's army. Last year Klaus Barbie was convicted of war crimes in France, and Hitler's crony, Rudolph Hess, died of an apparent suicide in Berlin's Spandau Prison, where he was the last convict. Two well-publicized Nazi deportation cases have occurred in the United States in the last two years. Karl Linnas was deported to the Soviet Union, where he had been convicted of war crimes in absentia. John Demjanjuk, accused of being a brutal prison guard in World War 11, was deported to Israel to stand trial. | ANALYSIS 1 —■ See Phenol/page 7 See Affirmative Action/page 5 v.Sj?o War Crialnals/page 4 ■D INSIDE THIS WEEK ' SEE UFE AND TIMES/ PAGE 11

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THE LOYOLA MAROON VOLUME 66, NO. 18 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70118 FEBRUARY 25, 1988 Acid leak in Monroe burns student By Chris Doyle News Editor At least 11 classes in Monroe 252 were relocated Feb. 10. They were closed after a crack in the ceiling allowed phenol, or carbolic acid, to seep through from a leaky container in a biology storeroom above, according to Dr. Jagdish M. Upadhyay, biology department chairman. The relocations, however, did not occur until a week after a student reported to Campus Security that she had received a small burn when a drop of the chemical fell from the ceiling on to her hand, the Rev. George F. Lundy, senior vice president and dean of faculties, said. Joan Spraggins, a secondary education and foreign languages graduate student, said she was getting into a circle for a night class group discussion when a drop of an oily, brownish liquid fell from the ceiling fell onto her hand. According to Lynn Brou of the Department of Environmental Quality, phenol is very toxic and is a suspected carcinogin in humans. Fatality has resulted from skin contact with areas of 64 inches.Spraggins said Upadhyay called her Feb. 10 to tell her that the substance that had fallen on her hand was something he had used many times, and although it would irritate the skin, it posed no real danger. Spraggins said she and some of the other students then noticed a stain on the carpet about 3 1/2 inches in diameter below the spot where the drop had fallen. According to Spraggins, she went to the bathroom to wash her hands, but she could not get the substance off. "It began to tingle-burn," Spraggins said, and eventually left a scar about the size of a nickel on her hand. Spraggins said she then left the class at her professor's suggestion and walked to security, where she was treated by the student health assistant, Pam Promecene. "After the report was made, I went over to room 252 and didn't see anything dripping but saw a dark spot on the ceiling," said Sgt. Robert Louis, who took the report from Spraggins. Alan Abadie, director of security, said that after reports are written by the officer on duty, they are typed by the secretary and forwarded over to the appropriate persons. Abadie said he believes this procedure was followed. A copy of the report indicates that it was forwarded to Vincent P. Knipfing, vice president for Student Affairs, and Robert Oehlke Jr., safety officer. "The safety officer is responsible for coordinating the response for a specific safety problem," Lundy said. At press time, Oehlke had not responded to repeated attempts to reach him for comment. Two days after she was burned, Spraggins said she went to the Office of StudentPhoto by Mary Degnan GETTING HIGH—The bell tower of Most Holy Name of Jesus Church receives special attention from workers Monday. Greek spring rush lacks affirmative action plan By Robb Kenney Editorial Editor Loyola's fraternities and sororities selected their spring pledges without definitive affirmative action plans, according to members of both the administration and the Greek organizations themselves. Vincent P. Knipfing, vice president for Student Affairs, attributed part of Greek organizations' lack of an affirmative action program to the way the administration handled the situation. "Our past mistake was not to encourage organizations to get specific plans," he said. "It's now going to require hard work, and there are obviously people out there who don't see value in this.'' Knipfing said he personally sees affirmative action as "a proactive effort to recruit minority students." The Rev. George F. Lundy, S J., senior vice president and dean of faculties and the university's designated affirmative action officer, said he was unaware of any particular affirmative action strategies that Greeks currently implement. He said he thinks more meetings between fraternity and sorority members and administrators to further discuss affirmative action are imminent Nazis' atrocities leave scars By Jeff Slade Staff writer Why hunt Nazis? They are not just creatures of the past, jerking about on grainy black and white newsreels. They are here now in living color: old, unrepentent men with crum- pled faces, young men with shaved heads, human bodies wrapped around lizards'hearts.Kurt Waldheim, president of Austria of the United ;. Nations, has been confronted with evidence that he knew of wartime atrocities while he was an officer in Adolph Hitler's army. Last year Klaus Barbie was convicted of war crimes in France, and Hitler's crony, Rudolph Hess, died of an apparent suicide in Berlin's Spandau Prison, where he was the last convict. Two well-publicized Nazi deportation cases have occurred in the United States in the last two years. Karl Linnas was deported to the Soviet Union, where he had been convicted of war crimes in absentia. John Demjanjuk, accused of being a brutal prison guard in World War 11, was deported to Israel to stand trial. | ANALYSIS 1 —■ See Phenol/page 7 See Affirmative Action/page 5 v.Sj?o War Crialnals/page 4 ■D INSIDE THIS WEEK ' SEE UFE AND TIMES/ PAGE 11